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postr/StutterMar 29, 2025
16 points

[MEGA-COLLECTION] Personal views on what CAUSES stuttering (this includes genetics/bioneurology, triggers etc)

[MEGA-COLLECTION] Personal views on what CAUSES stuttering (this includes genetics/bioneurology, triggers etc) **Stutter theories**: *(personal views on what causes stuttering)* * [Theory #1 ](https:...

Causes & Variability
Genetic & Family FactorsNeurological & BrainTrauma & Psychological+3 more
commentr/StutterMar 27, 2025
1 points

Has this ever happened to any of you stutterers? My dad and his friend used to act like they had a speech impediment, pretending they had a lisp or stutter. But my whole life, my dad pretended he st...

Causes & VariabilityIdentity & DisabilityCoping & Advocacy
Trauma & PsychologicalStigma & BullyingSelf-Advocacy & Boundaries
commentr/StutterMar 26, 2025
2 points

Though it’s not necessarily the root cause, Stuttering can certainly be related to PTSD and anxiety. We don’t stutter because we are anxious, but anxiety (including PTSD) definitely makes stuttering w...

Causes & VariabilityEmotional ExperienceIdentity & Disability
Trauma & PsychologicalAnxiety & Social JudgmentNeurological & Brain+3 more
commentr/StutterMar 26, 2025
2 points

Also, don't believe online information that claims this and that celebrities used to stutter and they overcome it. Because if your stutter can be overcome, you would have done it by now with all the s...

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commentr/StutterMar 26, 2025
1 points

I stutter and block sometimes so intensly that I cannot speak and my mouth just opens ive been laughed at alot so I definely feel that is why I block more ... especially when speaking my second langua...

Speech & StutteringEmotional ExperienceCauses & Variability
Blocks & StoppagesPhysical TensionAnxiety & Social Judgment+3 more
commentr/StutterMar 26, 2025
1 points

My parents said I stuttered from the time I started talking. Respectfully, how can you know that a traumatic event isn't the cause? I'm interested in this, though. I'd be willing to give this therapy ...

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commentr/StutterMar 26, 2025
1 points

I appreciate that!! Your story is super, super interesting. I’ll have to look more into the relationship between a TBI and the stoppage of stuttering. When you think about stuttering as a neurological...

Causes & VariabilitySpeech & Stuttering
Neurological & BrainTrauma & PsychologicalOnset & Life-Stage Changes
postr/StutterMar 26, 2025
2 points

Memory lose

Memory lose Since I graduated from high school, i can Barely remember shit from it. I think it’s because of my stutter and it was the worst time in my life i was depressed and had really awful experie...

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commentr/StutterMar 26, 2025
1 points

Hello Joe. I give You props for pursuing a career path which not only aided you in a better understanding of the speech impediment you have/had but wanting to better the lives of others who desperatel...

Speech & StutteringCauses & Variability
Onset & Life-Stage ChangesTrauma & PsychologicalNeurological & Brain
commentr/StutterMar 25, 2025
6 points

Hi there, I really feel for you. I've suffered with a speech impairment for many years now. Started around the age of 4/5 I think juat after my younger brother was born. A short time before that I had...

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commentr/StutterMar 25, 2025
2 points

A feeble attempt at Trauma Bonding in the most disgusting way to establish something in common. It may be soothing to them to attempt at something that bonds us together but it’s a feeble effort to cr...

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Avoidance & SubstitutionHiding & ConcealmentTrauma & Psychological+1 more
commentr/StutterMar 25, 2025
12 points

Hello, i know how frustrating and isolating it is to struggle with a communicative disorder—I've been dealing with post-traumatic speech difficulties for over a decade, and I completely understand how...

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commentr/StutterMar 25, 2025
1 points

In my case it got worse since I became an orphan, probably due to stress of losing both my parents....

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commentr/StutterMar 24, 2025
1 points

Thanks for your reply. I agree we cannot take emotions out of the equation. But think about times when you have stuttered and there hasn't been much emotion or social pressure involved. That's the ba...

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Neurological & BrainStress & Fight/FlightTrauma & Psychological+1 more
commentr/StutterMar 23, 2025
1 points

As a Clinical Hypnotherapist I have had great results with people who stutter. The first thing I learned with my research is that you are not born with a stutter. Stuttering is caused by a traumatic e...

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Trauma & PsychologicalTherapy Experiences
commentr/StutterMar 23, 2025
1 points

As a Clinical Hypnotherapist I have had great results with people who stutter. The first thing I learned with my research is that you are not born with a stutter. Stuttering is caused by a traumatic e...

Causes & VariabilityTherapy & Professional
Trauma & PsychologicalTherapy Experiences
commentr/StutterMar 23, 2025
1 points

I was a childhood stutterer and at 18years old suffered a TBI which only exacerbated my stuttering…...

Causes & VariabilitySpeech & Stuttering
Trauma & PsychologicalOnset & Life-Stage Changes
commentr/StutterMar 23, 2025
1 points

lol, my mom thought I stuttered when either a dog scared me or I turned the music up too loud. I love dogs, play with them all the time, love animals in general, and love listening to loud music. St...

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Trauma & PsychologicalGenetic & Family FactorsNeurological & Brain
commentr/StutterMar 22, 2025
2 points

That makes a lot of sense to me thank you. But I am not sure how you conclude that deconditioning yourself to the stimuli that produces a stutter is not an effective way to go about it. If this is ind...

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Trauma & PsychologicalAuthenticity vs. MaskingAcceptance & Pride
commentr/StutterMar 22, 2025
1 points

Not sure if all stuttering is caused by childhood trauma. Although I like the theory of decay threshold and social fear as an amplifier/activator of stuttering, there remains several evidence that stu...

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Trauma & PsychologicalStress & Fight/FlightGenetic & Family Factors+1 more